Francisco Scarano

Professor, Chican@ and Latin@ Studies Program
Professor, Department of History
Director of Graduate Studies
*On leave 2009-2010*

Education

• Ph.D., Columbia University
• M.S., Columbia University
• B.A., Duke University

Specialization and Research Interests
Professor Scarano's main research and teaching area is the hisotyr of the Caribbean region, with emphasis on the Spanish-speaking nations and, particularly, on Puerto Rico. Some of the topics hes as worked on include slavery, plantation ecomony and society, peasantry's and the influence of racial imagery on nation-building.

Selected Publications

• Ed., with Margarita Zamora. Cuba: contrapuntos de cultura, historia y sociedad/Cuba: Counterpoints on Culture, History, and Society. Ediciones Callejón, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2007.
• Jíbaro Masquerades: Peasants, Politics, and Identity in Puerto Rico and its Diaspora. Under contract with University of North Carolina Press for publication in 2009.
• La mascarada, jíbara y otros ensayos: clases, resistencias, e identidades en la historia de Puerto Rico, forthcoming, Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico.
• Tradición y modernidad: una historia contemporanea de Puerto Rico. Mexico City: McGraw Hill Interamericana, 1998.
• Puerto Rico: cinco siglos de historia. Bogota: McGraw Hill, 1993.

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